Description
| Product ID: | 9780143135234 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Beggar's Pawn |
| Subtitle: | A Novel |
| Authors: | Author: John L'Heureux |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The final book by the noted novelist, short story writer, and teacher John L''Heureux. David and Maggie Holliss are an ordinary married couple about to ease into a comfortable, well-earned retirement while tending to three middle-aged children with whom they share an edgy relationship of love and resentment. Reginald Parker enters their lives when he saves their dog from being run over by a truck, and when asked how they can possibly thank him, he replies with a request for the loan of two hundred dollars. They lend it to him, gladly, and thus begins what will become for them and their family a nightmare that moves from comic resignation to stark tragedy. |
| Imprint Name: | Plume |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-08-04 |
